Yvette Bethel
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- Emotional Intelligence,Career Development,Career Coaching,Strategic Facilitation
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- E.Q. Librium,Getting to E.Q. Librium,Games People Play at Work
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- Corporate Consulting,Career Coaching
Yvette Bethel has more than 20 years of professional experience at a Fortune 500 company and 10 years as an independent consultant at Organizational Soul. As an organizational effectiveness and development consultant, emotional intelligence practitioner, trainer, lecturer and author, Yvette understands the people side of organizations and how to effectively bring together people structures with the corporate vision of the business and the know-how of employees.
Yvette is a Fulbright Scholar who put her acquired skills to use in the banking industry prior to launching Organizational Soul. During her tenure as an employee, she served in senior capacities in corporate strategy, marketing, PR, training and human resources. Yvette's HR and people development experience commenced in the late 1980s and in her final role at a financial institution, Yvette’s responsibilities spanned eight countries.
Having gained exposure in the areas of Organizational Effectiveness, Human Resources and People Development, Yvette integrates this experience with her emotional intelligence knowledge and skills to build individual and team strengths. Yvette is an advanced Emotional Intelligence Practitioner with the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence network. Six Seconds is a global, non-profit organization with the sole purpose of introducing emotional intelligence to the world. Using emotional intelligence coaching, EQ assessments, emotional intelligence training and other interventions, Yvette helps organizations to transform their cultures by building productive work relationships. In 2013 Yvette presented at the Nexus EQ conference held at Harvard University. She is passionate about organizational effectiveness and development and seeks to work with clients who are ready to resolve challenges that impact employee engagement.
Yvette is a blogger, freelance article writer and author of the books: “E.Q. Librium: Unleash the Power of Your Emotional Intelligence; A Proven Path to Career Success”; and the USA Best Book Award winning Activity Book, “Getting to E.Q. Librium”. Yvette is also the creator of the emotional intelligence, online, simulation, "The Games People Play at Work" and author of the audio book, "Your Workplace Survival Kit." She is currently authoring a new book called "Interconnectivity, Flow and Balance: A Model of Employee Engagement"
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The Anatomy of Blame
I always marvel when I sit in meetings when assigned actions were not taken and the responsible Manger would say, “I gave that project to one of my supervisors and they were unable to finish.” The underlying message in this blaming statement is that the manager delegated the responsibility so he doesn’t have to be held accountable. What is Blame?
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Tips for Inexperienced Leaders
These leaders are newly appointed to a leadership role because they have the qualifications and the results to match. The company sees potential in these individuals because they are technically sound, highly driven, and talented. Their employers have big plans for these new leaders. However, in some instances, persons reporting to them don’t feel engaged, they feel fearful. They don’t feel energetic, they feel drained, voiceless, over worked and undervalued. Based on interactions with a wide variety of businesses here are some characteristics of inexperienced leaders:
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It Seems Like a Team...
You hear the words team, teamwork or team building at the office, some of us more than others. But do authentic teams really exist? Or are you a part of a disconnected group of people who happen to work for the same employer, all with different agendas? Sometimes employees are lured into thinking a team exists because the word is used so often. Unfortunately, they end up feeling confused or betrayed because they experience an isolated feeling when collaboration is anticipated, or when relationships they thought were healthy turn out to be one sided or exploitative.
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Expand Your Leadership by Developing Others
One of John Maxwell’s law of leadership is called the Law of the Lid. According to Maxwell, “Leadership ability determines a person’s level of effectiveness.” In other words, the leader cannot surpass his or her own ability to lead. By extension, the skills of persons reporting to a leader rarely exceed the leader’s capability to lead either because they are not developed adequately or persons do not feel safe demonstrating their true skills in the presence of their leaders.
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Down with Political Correctness
In an era wdhere the authenticity of news and facts are coming under constant scrutiny it is important to also take a look at political correctness. Political correctness is supposed to be a system of behaviour that requires persons to express themselves or act in a way that is inclusive and respectful toward persons who are being discriminated against.
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Mastering Tone
Emotions operate like a virus, traveling from person to person, creating a collage of feelings. When emotions are allowed to flow unabated, they can cause a virus that connects with the team that can be productive or unconstructive.
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Immobilized Leaders
A Manager recently exclaimed in a discussion, “Leadership theory is fallacious!” Based on her experience, it seems to be impossible to be a leader in her organization which she characterized as dishonest, abusive and highly controlling. From her perspective, her attempts at being an effective leader are futile because demonstrating leadership competencies is not valued or even possible.
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Restructuring Feedback
Feedback is a curious thing. The intention behind offering it is to bring about positive change, to modify behaviour. However, when criticism is offered, even when it is skillfully embedded in a non-judgmental tone, sounding supportive and authentic, persons on the receiving end can still feel attacked or embarrassed so responses like withdrawal, defensiveness or anger can result. When criticism is condescending, or even bullying, organizations stand to lose good people or cause top performers to hold back.
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Cultural Game Masters
When cultural change is the order of the day, it is not possible to deconstruct one culture and then construct a new one. What is usually the case is the old and the new culture coexist while cultural change is happening. Depending on which culture remains dominant over time, the one has the power players behind it is the culture that will prevail. Whenever there is a change in leadership, there can be potential for changes in culture. New CEOs bring the potential for new values, new ways of being, new standards of behaviour and new results.
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Empowered Leaders
When creating a culture characterized by engaged employees, one of the more influential resources for transformation are the leaders of your organization. When leaders are immobilized by a controlling culture, dishonesty, disorganization, those who withhold information, or even bullying, transforming into a culture that leads to engagement works best when there is a vision for the change and authentic commitment to the vision. Shifting from Immobilization to Empowerment
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Grow By Making Decisions
There is a whole spectrum of possibilities when it comes to decision making authority. In organizations that value structure and control, policies and procedures form a framework for day-to-day work. Policies, range from very granular, dictating all imaginable actions, others are flexible enough to allow discretion yet provide structure. Then there are organizations that have no structure at all. When there is no structure, employees who need it suffer and complain, those who don’t may be comfortable in this environment.
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The Straight Shooter
When we think of a straight shooter we tend to think of persons who can be depended on to communicate the truth. While this is accurate, straight shooters come in many varieties. There are persons who use straight shooting to support members of their teams and others use it to destroy. Some are consistently straight shooters because they value integrity and others use it as a deliberate strategy to hurt or manipulate their coworkers. Some persons who consider themselves straight shooters are blunt, others communicate the truth more elegantly.
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February 6, 2017
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Yvette Bethel is an Organizational Effectiveness Consultant, Trainer, Speaker, Author, Executive Coach and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner. She authored the book: E.Q. Librium; and the USA Best Book Award Winning Activity Book Getting to E.Q. Librium.
January 12, 2016
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Yvette Bethel
Your organization has a soul. Together, your employees reflect its soul through cultural norms, social systems, and structures like your policies and procedures. When the soul of your organization is healthy, it is a dynamic, vibrant, evolving and empowered entity. Employees are engaged, productive and inspired. As with your people, the soul of your organization longs to tap into and remain connected with its true brilliance.
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I work with open-minded and growth-oriented CEOs, Managing Directors and Boards of small and medium-sized organizations who are having challenges with top executives or their organizational structures.
I help businesses determine if executives are no longer right for their roles, and I redesign structures that are no longer relevant due to rapid growth. I also, provide other strategic HR & Training support in areas like executive recruitment, performance measurement, executive development, and succession planning.
I help decision-makers ensure their organizational structure works for their business vision and their executives have the skills, expertise and emotional intelligence to lead teams in achieving business results while building healthy, professional relationships.
My strengths with relationship building and communication help to facilitate desired outcomes through people. To connect with me, just drop a line to info@orgsoul.com
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